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Deadly Outlaw: Rekka

Jitsuroku Andô Noboru kyôdô-den: Rekka

Japan

2002

96 Min
Color
Japanese
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DIR Takashi Miike

PROD Tsuneo Seto

SCR Shigenori Takechi

DP Kiyoshi Itô

CAST Riki Takeuchi, Sonny Chiba, Tetsurô Tanba, Ryôsuke Miki, Ken'ichi Endô

ED Yasushi Shimamura

MUSIC Joe Yamanaka

Synopsis

After Kunisada’s Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation by the old man’s killers. –IMDb

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Takashi Miike

A contemporary of such noted film experimentalists as Tetsuo: The Iron Man [1989, maverick Japanese workhorse director Takashi Miike became one of the most talked about filmmakers in the international festival circuit. Despite the derailed manic energy of the aforementioned films, it was the stark relationship drama turned sadistic nightmare Audition that found the director receiving increasing international exposure. Audition succeeded in pulling the rug from under viewers as it turned the age-old image of the submissive Japanese female on its head with a shocking and nearly unbearable finale that had many horrified viewers shell-shocked. Born in Osaka, Japan, in 1960, Miike spent his childhood growing up in Osaka, where he eventually opted to study filmmaking at the Yokohama Academy of Visual Arts. Inspired more by Bruce Lee than Seijun Suzuki, Miike’s distinctive style came more as a result of not studying the traditional rules of filmmaking than a conscious attempt to break them… read more

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Mr. Arkadin

1Dec11

The opening is one of Miike's signature best (a la Dead or Alive). Wish he would've pushed the weirdo/ero guro aspects of the film further though (like the amputated hands stuck around the killer's neck for instance; also some of the strange "meta"-editing that he does in the first third). Overall, better than I remembered, enough I think to crack Miike's top 10 (that ending really puts it over the top).

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Easton Dubois

8Jul11

Flower Travellin' Band = fucking awesome.

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Human Form

6Jun11

My personal Miike favorite. The parking garage beat down is untouchable

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ruby stevens

2May11

SATORI ! ! !

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A Decade with Takashi Miike. The Cinema of Gratitude: "Deadly Outlaw Rekka" (2002)

By Ben Sachs on April 12, 2010

Perhaps it’s best to start at the end. After a perfunctory showdown (a two-on-two variation on the end of Dead or Alive [Takashi Miike

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